Gorgeous talk by sculptor Christine Charlesworth on Canterbury’s new Behn statue - looking forward to posing with her soon! #AphraConference

Thought-provoking performance of Behn’s The Amorous Prince this evening - superbly acted with insights from the cast 👏👏👏 Go and see it!! #AphraConference

Full house for Mel Evans plenary on Behn’s spying letters 👀 #AphraConference

Another day of wonderful papers at the #AphraConference and I got talk about beauty, morality and disease on this incredible panel with Ceri Fowler and Hannah Straw!

Excellent conference dinner last night - only slight raucous 😂 #AphraConference

Excellent panel yesterday on beauty and VD with Dr Katie Aske, Hannah Straw, and Keele English and Creative Writing’s Ceri Fowler 💄🍆 #AphraConference

Charlotte Cornell’s plenary on Behn’s Kentish Beginnings begins! #fullhouse #AphraConference

The main business of the conference closes with a plenary by Loveday Ingram, Director of The RSC’s 2016 production of Behn’s The Rover, accompanied by compelling performances of Angellica Bianca and Willmore’s exchanges 🗡️🔫 #AphraConference (Westminster Abbey tomorrow!)

What an end to our wonderful conference. We had director loveday Ingram along with actors Alexandra Gilbreath and Samuel Collings come to discuss The RSC 2016 The Rover by Aphra Behn with readings of some epic scenes.

Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at Westminster Abbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻

Congratulations to all our English and Creative Writing students who graduated yesterday! We're so proud of all they've achieved and we'll miss them... 🎓🥂🎉🍾🪩 #KeeleGraduation

More “Joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn” in The Guardian this week! theguardian.com/stage/article/…

What a pleasure to co-examine a brilliant thesis today by Tracey Jones Keele English and Creative Writing on The Emotional History of the Gothic Novel (with @drdanielcook and @GreenBowlerHat)! Congratulations to Dr Jones and her supervisory team Nick Seager Becky Yearling and Jon Shears 🦇🏰📖

Come and do a PhD with me if you're into historical fiction set in civil war era England. #histfic #phdresearch #HistoryMatters

Always a highlight of the year - today on our Humanities placements module we heard from some of our fabulous placement providers who are offering roles this year. Thanks so much to Newcastle College Keele Comms & Brand @SherwoodTrust and Dr Aimee Merrydew Keele University Library

Did anyone actually read the books in country house libraries? Keele English and Creative Writing PGR Rachel Daley writes for The PGECR Country House Group (Spoiler: they did!) countryhouseresearch.com/blog/did-anyon…

Many congratulations to Professor Jon Shears Keele English and Creative Writing whose Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron has just been published by OUP! 🎉🎉🎉

It was wonderful to receive an award at last night’s #CelebratingStaffSuccess event for our work on the Humanities placement modules. Thank you to the colleagues who nominated us! 💚

Come and work with my excellent colleagues Nick Seager and Siobhan Talbott on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship: Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection, 1704-1812 #phd #postgrad keele.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Had a wonderful time last week talking to visitors at Tatton Park library about everyday reading in the 19th century with my colleague Jon Shears. #booksinboards #familyreading